July 5 - Meat and Potatoes

Meat and Potatoes

This Day In History

1295

Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called "Auld Alliance", against England.

1610

John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.

1687

saac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

1865

The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.

1937

Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

1954

The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.

1996

Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

2009

The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.

Famous Birthdays

1794

Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (d. 1851)

1801

David Farragut, American naval commander (d. 1870)

1810

P.T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)

1853

Cecil Rhodes, British founder of Rhodesia (d. 1902)

1889

Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)

1918

George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
1940
Chuck Close, American painter and photographer

1950

Huey Lewis, American singer (Huey Lewis and the News)

1958

Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
Meredith Ann Pierce, American fantasy writer & librarian

1959

Marc Cohn, American singer and songwriter

1980

Eva Green, French actress